HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: RESERVES WHISTLEBLOWER DR HUONG & ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC :Tue 07 Feb 2006 10:12 AM EST: Naturally Dr Huong is depressed and distressed at the ruthless way he is being treated after being a hardworking employee for almost three decades. Unlike the directors currently still at the helm of Shell, he is not implicated or tainted by the reserves fraud. Indeed, if he had been listened to, the fraud would probably not have happened.: READ

ShellNews.net: DRAFT AFFIDAVIT OF DR JOHN HUONG: AN UNPARALLELED INDICTMENT OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL GROUP: AN UNAUTHORIZED PUBLICATION: 7 FEBRUARY 2006: READ

I note that Dr Huong has not taken issue with the accuracy of the content of his draft Affidavit. This is unsurprising since he was the author (but not the publisher). READ

Shell Insider Article with Leaked Shell Internal document: Our "Leader" - TOM BOTTS: Shell Executive VP: "Hello Alfred: Below is the crap we receive from our ‘leader’." 2 Feb 2006: READ Jyoti Munsiff: more analogous to a poacher turned gamekeeper: "Jyoti Munsiff was up to her neck in trying to cover-up the cover-up (it is only in reference to Shell management that I could end up writing such a comment). Consequently I am shocked at her new role as the keeper of Shell ethics. Frankly it’s laughable (but I'm not laughing).": Thu 02 Feb 2006: READ Investments & Pensions Europe: Shell facing costs from Dutch funds’ action: "Oil giant Shell today says the two class actions brought against it by Dutch pension schemes and German and Luxembourg institutions could dent its earnings significantly.": "In other news, the South African arm of Shell has been accused of “improperly” using surplus pension fund money according to a 2001 amendment of the Pension Funds Act. ": Thu 02 Feb 2006 02:50 PM EST: READ ShellNews.net: Jyoti Munsiff: Shell's Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer: "analogous to putting a fox in charge of a hen house.": 2 Feb 2006: READ ShellNews.net: Email to Jyoti Munsiff from a Shell Whistleblower: ": "I also believe that it is fair to make readers of this communication aware that apart from the High Court Restraining Order, I am also constrained in my comments by a threat of imprisonment.": Thu 02 Feb 2006 02:57 AM EST: READ ShellNews.net: NGO’s and US class action lawyers urgently seek contact with Shell shareholders/employees Thu 02 Feb 2006 08:55 AM EST: READ ShellNews.net: THE SHELL ENRON LINK : 2 Feb 2006 ShellNews.net: WWF seeking information from those concerned about Sakhalin : 2 Feb 2006Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer faces potential criminal prosecution by US Justice Depart: 30 Jan 2006: READ ShellNews.net: Dr Huong files broadside defence to Shell defamation lawsuit: 29 January 2006: READ ShellNews.net: Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer still faces potential criminal prosecution by US Justice Department: 29 January 2006: READ ShellNews.net: Shell Insider: Botts will pop a vein once he sees this: Fri 27 Jan 2006: READ ShellNews.net: Urgent appeal to Royal Dutch Shell Plc Investors by U.S. Pirg Shell campaign regarding arctic national wildlife refuge: Wed 25 Jan 2006: READ ShellNews.net: ECCR seeks Shell shareholder support for shareholder resolution : 25 Jan 2006 ShellNews.net: Global Floodgates Open on Shell Reserves Fraud Class Action : 25 Jan 2006http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2006/01/25/global-floodgates-open-on-shell-reserves-fraud-class-action/ : 20 January 2006 ShellNews.net: Bribery and Corruption at Shell: Saturday 14 January 2006: READ ShellNews.net: The Dow Jones report (see article below) about the $50,000 reminds me of a comment that I heard within Shell - something to the effect that Shell were under increasing financial pressure from the Russian "mafia"…: “may be little more than the tip of the iceberg”: Friday 13 January 2006: READ ShellNews.net: The latest embarrassment to Shell: READ Tuesday 10 January 2006: Now Updated for Wednesday 11 Jan: From a Shell Insider: ("I had to get this long story off my chest, I am glad there is a forum where this can get published/discussed without being killed off.": "Freedom of speech is great, it should be encouraged within Shell too.) ShellNews.net: Shell alienates and defrauds almost an entire country: Tuesday 10 January 2006: READ(From a Shell Insider): (The Dutch populace are renowned for their fiscal prudence, and may not be amused to hear that their pension funds have been defrauded by Shell)ShellNews.net: Shell Insider Article: “…the Bonga field is very late and over budget.”: "I wonder whose 2005 bonus required the "first oil" from Bonga to be produced before the end of the year...": Monday 9 January 2006: READ ShellNews.net: 399 REASONS WHY JON CHADWICK, DEPARTING CHAIRMAN OF SHELL MALAYSIA, SHOULD BE HANGING HIS HEAD IN SHAME: Sun 8 January 2006: READ ShellNews.net: ‘Shell Venster’ magazine photograph captures Royal Dutch Shell Plc Company Secretary, Michiel Brandjes, involved in a screwing job with his secretary: READ ShellNews.net: Shell Malaysia Chairman’s new job: Saturday 7 January 2006: READShellNews.net: Shell Insider News on Walter van de Vijver: Wednesday 4 January 2006 22.45 GMT: READ ShellNews.net: 2 YRS AFTER RESERVES FRAUD, SHELL REPUTATION STILL RANKED ALONGSIDE ENRON : 4 January 20062005ShellNews.net: Shell insider view on Sakhalin II loan news from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development:"In spite of Shell's attempts to spin this announcement, this does not mean that the project has been given a clean bill of health.": Thursday 15 December 2005: 12.15 EST: READShellNews.net: Email from former Shell Malaysia employee group prompts a new website: www.ShellSarawak.com: Thursday 15 Dec 2005: 00.05am: READShellNews.net: The “GREAT CORRIB GAS CONTROVERSY” may turn into a full blown scandal: “The CPI report contained findings on health, safety and environmental implications damaging to Shell’s case and with potentially equally damning political implications for the Irish coalition government.”: Wednesday 14 December 2005: 04.22am EST: READShellNews.net: ALMOST 2 YRS AFTER THE RESERVES FRAUD, SHELL’S REPUTATION IS STILL RANKED IN THE CORPORATE GUTTER ALONGSIDE ENRON: Friday 9 December 2005: 05.25am EST: READShellNews.net: A Shell insider comments on an FT article about Aad Jacobs, the Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell plc.: “I find it incredible that big companies hang on to these geriatrics.”: “…the salmon was getting cold so he could not spend more time on this minor issue of bad reserves reporting. He had done what a chairman of the supervisory board had to do and continued with his lunch.”: Monday 5 December 2005: 09.45am EST: READ ShellNews.net: An Open Letter to Jean Lemierre, President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, regarding Shell's Sakhalin II loan application: "Perhaps if more time had been spent on project management rather than ego and status driven pursuits and personal enrichment by Shell senior management, Shell would not be in the almost perpetual state of crisis which its stakeholders have witnessed in recent years.": Sunday 4 December 2005: 00.15am EST READ ShellNews.net: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development defers Sakhalin2 decision for one month: Tuesday 29 November 2005: 07.00am EST:READShellNews.net: Dynamite Email from Shell insider: “I am a Shell employee but of late we not allowed anymore to freely ventilate our concerns to management by fear which reigns inside the company. Therefore I take the unusual step to send this email to you from my home address and trust you will keep me anonymous.”: “The last few weeks there has been a great number of articles on Sakhalin and other disasters on your site. The one that made me write this email was the interview with Linda Cook.”: “…the ‘poodle’ of Phil Watts…”: Monday 28 November 2005: READ ShellNews.net: Is Shell panicking?: "AlliancexShell grows to 200 members in initial day": Monday 28 November 2005: 05.20am EST: READ ShellNews.net: EMAIL RECEIVED FROM MEMBER OF ROSSPORT FIVE CAMPAIGN: (ShellNews.net has agreed not to disclose the name of this well known Irish national): Posted Monday 28 November 2005: 00.05am GMT READ ShellNews.net: Dire warning to President Putin about $26 BILLION overrun on Sakhalin2 project: Friday 25 November 2005: 04.30am EST: READ ShellNews.net: Is Sakhalin Doomed?: Tuesday 22 November 2005: 06.40am EST: READ ShellNews.net: Shell Brent field shut down?: Monday 21 November 2005: 10.50am EST: READ ShellNews.net: Rattled Shell management swamped with bad news, issues threat following President Putin’s Sakhalin2 tirade: Thursday 17 November 2005: 03.00am EDT: READ

ShellNews.net: Final Cost of Sakhalin-2 will now be at least $26 Bn.: "A new Sakhalin management team recently completed a technical review of the project. It has concluded that the final cost will be at least $26bn.": Tuesday 18 October 2005: 00.30am GMT: READ

ShellNews.net: PROTECTING THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT OF THE PACIFIC RIM: CHAPTER ONE: "Since 1994, Shell Oil has been spearheading an oil and gas extraction project off the shore of Sakhalin Island, a Russian Island north of Japan. This development will impact the critically endangered Western Pacific Grey Whale...": Posted Wednesday 12 October 2005: 09.30pm EDT: READ

ShellNews.net: Saving and Serving Lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: "In view of recent publicly made allegations against Shell management that it has displayed racist policies towards its former employees in Malaysia...": Tuesday 13 Sept 2005 16.48 PM EDT:READ

ShellNews.net: Question mark over legal status of Royal Dutch Shell Statement of General Business Principles: "The development may also be of interest to the Rossport Five jailed in Ireland at Shell's behest after making a stand on environmental grounds.": Friday 9 September 2005: 10.00am ET: READ

ShellNews.net: Major US Class Action Lawsuit Against Shell Given go-ahead by U.S. District Chief Judge John Bissell: Read the 152 page Order Here: 21.00pm Wednesday 10 August 2005 Read the 152 page Order Here: 21.00pm Wednesday 10 August 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: Two radical steps could further distance Royal Dutch Shell from the reserves scandal: 18.30pm Monday 8 August 2005:Read the article

ShellNews.net: Rossport Five may have grounds to bring wrongful imprisonment claim against Shell: 00.50am Sunday 7 August 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: The Jailing of the Rossport 5 by Shell: John Donovan's interview on Dublin Newstalk Radio 106fm - “The Breakfast Show with Eamon Dunphy”: Posted 17.30 Saturday 6 August 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: An Expert Assessment of Shell’s Reputation: "On occasion, a company's activities can acquire so much bad publicity that the brand is damaged beyond repair.": 18.28. Tuesday 26 July 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: Why has Ex-Shell Boss Watts brought proceedings against the FSA who did not name him in their Shell reserves scandal report but not against publishers and broadcasters who have named him in connection with the debacle?: 00.10 Tuesday 26 July 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: Shell still under heavy fire in US Courts: Latest on US Class Action hearing against Royal Dutch/Shell: Updated 11am Sunday 24 July 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: Newark Star-Ledger report on the multi-billion dollar US Class Action reserves scandal lawsuit against Royal Dutch/Shell and named former and current directors, including Royal Dutch Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer and Shell E & P Executive Director, Malcolm Brinded: 1.40am: Sunday 24 July 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: Yet another PR disaster for Shell after Nigeria, Brent Spar, the reserves debacle and the $10 billion cost overrun on the Sakhalin-2 project: now the Corrib Irish pipeline "cause célèbre": 16.45pm: Saturday 23 July 2005: Read the article

SHELLNEWS.NET: WHY WE CAN’T BE SURE OF SHELL: SocialFunds.com article identifies a common denominator between the reserves scandal and Sakhalin-2 cost overrun debacle: the issue of trust: 9.52am Friday 22 July 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: ANOTHER BAD NEWS DAY FOR SHELL: LONDON TIMES ARTICLE IMPLIES THAT SHELL ISSUED A FALSE PROSPECTIVE FOR ITS MERGER: THE INDEPENDENT SAYS THAT SHELL IS “RUDDERLESS”: FT CLAIMS THAT INVESTORS DUMPED THE NEW UNIFIED SHELL SHARES ON THEIR DEBUT DAY AND REVIVES DESIRABLE PROSPECT OF TOTAL/SHELL MEGA-MERGER: 9am: Thursday 21 July 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: A new company - Royal Dutch Shell plc will be born tomorrow - but it will forever have a SECOND-HAND Internet id if Shell wins domain name battle: 16.45pm: Tuesday 19 July 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: THE SHELL SAKHALIN-2 DEBACLE: Creditability concerns over Royal Dutch/Shell Executives, Jeroen van der Veer and Malcolm Brinded following the Salhalin2 $10 billion cost overrun scandal.: "The only thing which has saved the hangover management at Shell is the one element over which they have no influence - the high oil price. In every other respect they are an unmitigated disaster. They should be sent packing.": Monday 18 July 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: A FOCUS ON SHELL’S UNETHICAL & RUTHLESS TREATMENT OF ITS MALAYSIAN EMPLOYEES: Saturday 16 July 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: Shell pays almost a quarter of a billion dollars in fines and settlements arising from reserves scandal, but more litigation is underway: "A court hearing is taking place today in the US District Court of New Jersey in respect of a billion dollar class action law suite against Shell by US institutional shareholders": 16.30pm: Wednesday 13 July 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: Shell undercover agents: What the Irish pipeline protesters can expect: “We have more than one letter from Shell Legal Director/Shell International General Counsel, Richard Wiseman, admitting the “activities” of a Shell undercover agent, Mr Christopher Phillips.”: Published Monday 11 July 2005: 13.50pm Read the article

ShellNews.net: The Sunday Times article "Corrib threat to Shell sell-off: "Do we spy another PR disaster on Shell’s horizon after Nigeria, Brent Spar and the reserves debacle?": 17.40: Sunday 3 July 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: Ironic Shell: The Shell Transport FINAL AGM resulting from the reserves scandal, started and ended to the refrain of Bing Crosby crooning: “You can be sure of Shell”: 3.10pm Wednesday 29 June 2005:Read the article

ShellNews.net: Who is the bad sport raining on Shell’s unification parade? Which veteran Shell shareholder has dampened the biggest Corporate Overhaul in Shell’s history? The answer: Alfred Donovan, the 88 year old Shell AGM party pooper. Why has he embarrassed the hell out of Shell for over decade? Saturday 25 June 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: Mr Justice Laddie, the High Court Judge who has been the subject of calls for an investigation into his handling on the Shell/Donovan “SMART trial (and has been cited by Shell in the royaldutchshellplc.com domain name battle) resigns from the Bench claiming he is “bored”.: Thursday 23 June 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: RESPONSE TO LONDON TIMES ARTICLE OF 21 JUNE 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: Shell whistleblower, Dr John Huong, a Shell geologist of almost 30 years standing faces Shell in court today in his action for wrongful dismissal against his former employer: 15 June 2005: Read the article

ShellNews.net: Royal Dutch Shell plc: Far from a fresh start for Shell: 10 June 2005: Read the article

LEGAL STUFF (NO NEED TO READ UNLESS YOU ARE A SHELL LAWYER, OR SOMEONE WITH A DEEP INTEREST IN SHELL, OR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION OR COPYRIGHT ISSUES)

LEGAL STATEMENT BY THE ROYAL DUTCH SHELL GROUP REGARDING THIS WEBSITE:The Royal Dutch Shell Group made the following unusual statement in a legal document in regards to this website: -"The... Group... have been aware of the site since the beginning and whilst they would not endorse or agree with many of the comments made by the Respondent on the website, they have taken the view that the Respondent is entitled to express his opinions and to use the Internet as a medium for doing so." This statement drafted by Shell lawyers and authorised by the "Group", amounts to tacit approval/acceptance/recognition of this website by Shell. It was submitted to The World Intellectual Property Organisation in May 2005 by Shell International Petroleum Company Limited on behalf of the Royal Dutch Shell Group in proceedings against me, Alfred Donovan, as the "Respondent" (owner) of three domain names, including www.royaldutchshellplc.com. It remains a mystery why Shell has taken an entirely different view regarding the fundamental human right to freedom of expression in respect of the former Shell geologist Dr John Huong, the well-known Shell whistle-blower, in relation to postings under his name elsewhere on this same website. Eight companies within the Royal Dutch Shell Group collectively obtained a High Court Injunction to silence him.

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